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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successful soap-opera actor -but that is a far cry from being a movie matinee idol. Gone is the famous 23-foot Marmon with his name in solid gold on the door. He can no longer afford to pass out $100 tips to waiters. His hair is white, and the lean, taut jaw line once beloved by millions of women has run to jowls. "At 64," booms Francis Xavier Bushman, "my energies are somewhat-ah-shall we say, mellowed, but my profile is unimpaired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Profile Unimpaired | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

After Manolete was gored last July, some of the crowds began to turn from their idol towards Dominguin. Last week, at Linares, after watching Dominguín. perform brilliantly, Manolete made a supreme attempt to show his mastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: The Best Is Dead | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Died. Manuel Rodriguez, 30, "Manolete, El Monstruo" (the monster), the greatest bullfighter of his day, the idol of millions of Spaniards and Latin Americans; from traumatic shock after a cornada (horn wound); in Linares, Spain (see INTERNATIONAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...outlaw cow slaughter. Mohandas Gandhi, a cow protector from way back, explained somewhat cattily: "India is a land not only of Hindus but of Moslems, Sikhs, Parsees, Christians and Jews. If cow slaughter can be prohibited in India on religious grounds, why can't Pakistan then prohibit [Hindu] idol worship in Pakistan on similar grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Live Cows | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Then the Government was ready to tackle the idol of Rumania's peasants, Maniu. Police raided his party headquarters, suppressed his party newspaper, Dreptatea, which had just defiantly printed the American Declaration of Independence (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Ordered House | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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